Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development

"The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's Interventions in Sao Tome and Principe: The Gap Between Research and Practice"

Speaker: Tony Kiszewski, Instructor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, HSPH

Hosted by Prof. William Clark, Science, Environment and Development Group, Center for International Development

Thursday, 21 April 2005
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Refreshments will be served
Location: Perkins Room, 4th Floor Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Building), Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

    Abstract:

Saő Tomé and Príncipe provide a microcosm of the problems and issues of malaria intervention in Africa. Their recent success in gaining support from the 4th Round of the GFATM provides the setting for a discussion of the gap between operational contingencies and basic research. Most mainstream malaria research addresses technologies, such as transgenic mosquitoes and transmission-blocking vaccines that are unlikely to deliver a practical field application within the next ten years. Research directly supporting current technologies lacks the emphasis required to ensure their success. Multilateral agencies in general and the GFATM application process in particular promote a generalized approach to malaria intervention, lacking the flexibility to take advantage of local opportunities related to diverse ecological and epidemiological conditions. We will discuss the role that the GFATM and other multilateral agencies play in determining the shaping the path that developing countries take in dealing with malaria, and where that path may be leading.

Biography:

Tony Kiszewski is an entomologist and malariologist in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. He has diverse interests in vector-borne pathogens in general, and the policy and practice of malaria intervention in particular. He has recently estimated the global costs of mainstream malaria interventions against malaria and has assisted the Ministries of Health in Ethiopia and Sao Tome and Principe in preparing successful proposals for the Global Fund for malaria intervention.

 

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